Face-steamer.



N0. 663,574. -Pater |ted Dec. ll, I900. W. C. KEITHLY.

FACE STEAMEB.

(Application filed Oct. 4, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNrren STATES LATENT FACE-STEAM ER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters IPatent No. 663,574, dated December 190d- Applicat lm fi October 4, 1900. Serial No. 32,005. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIE O. KEITHLY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Face-Steamers; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to a device whereby vapors of various liquids may be brought in contact with the face or be inhaled by the person undergoing treatment.

It consists of the parts and the constructions and combinations of parts,substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a vertical section through the apparatus. Fig. 2 is an interior view of the same.

' A represents a lamp of any suitable pattern or size upon which my apparatus may be adapted to rest.

2 is a generator into which the water or other liquid to be vaporized is supplied through an opening, as 3. Extending upwardly from the generator is the wall or casing 4, preferably curved so as to form the segment of a cylinder and of which the top of the generator is the base. Lying against and attached to the inner back portion of this wall and extending about two-thirds the height thereof is the perforated vapor-discharge duct 5. This duct or chamber is made in the shape of the segment of a hollow truncated cone. This allows a proportionate and a radial discharge of the vapors. I may vary the exact form, but preserving the principle of the large base, tapered extension, and radial perforations. This vapor-outlet is the essence of the invention, for thereby only is a proper distribution of the vapors made, for while the greatest discharge is to be upon the lower portion of the face and the vapor tends always to rise, yet it soon loses its value after being released, and it is by my arrangement that supplies of fresh active vapor are to be directed upon all parts of the face and all parts thereby receive the fullest benefit.

Attached to the edges of the casing 4: is a hood '7, of any suitable fabric.

The operation is as follows: Water or any desired medicated or other liquid is placed in the generator, and by the application of heat vapors issue from the perforationsin 5, The patient simply draws the hood over his head and brings his face in contact with the vapor.

The loose hood allows great latitude as to the intensity of the application, and the fact of the hood being open below allows the patient plenty of breathing-space if fresh air is desired.

In the same device is furnished a facesteamer and an inhaler, according as it is desired to treat the skin only or as some beneficial drug in the form of a vapor is to be taken into the lungs.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A steaming device consisting of a unitary structure including a generator having an upwardly-extending wall at one side curved transversely, and a perforated chamber lying against the extended wall of the generator and terminating short of the upper limits thereof, the lower portion of the chamber being in direct communication with the generating-chamber whereby vapor may pass from the latter to the former.

2. A face-steaming device consisting of a single unitary structure including a generator having an upwardly-extending wall at one side curved transversely, and a vertical, radially-perforated,cone-shaped chamber along the inner wall of said extension and terminating short of the upper limits of the latter, and connected at its lower end directly with the generator-chamber whereby vapor passes directly from the latter to the former.

3. Aface-steamerconsisting of a single unitary structure including a generator having an upwardly-extending wall at one side curved transversely, and a vertical chamber lying parallel with the inner wall of the extension and radially perforated, and decreasing in diameter from the bottom upwardly, and connecting directly with the generating-chamber, and a flexible attachment or hood forming a closure for the upper portion of the structure.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

WVILLIE O. KEITHLY.

Witnesses:

S. H. NoURsE, CHAS. E. TOWNSEND. 

